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The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James5/27/2023 Spending four months at Gardencourt, Isabel is grateful for the Touchett’s goodwill and charmed by their reclusive, yet beautiful, rural lifestyle. Also present at this first introduction is the dashing Lord Warburton, the Touchett’s neighbor, who is similarly enchanted upon meeting Isabel. Touchett and Ralph are both unwell due to old age and consumption, respectively. They are both immediately taken by Isabel’s beauty and good nature after she appears like an apparition in their doorway. Touchett and her cousin Ralph greet her warmly at Gardencourt (the Touchett family estate). Having never met their American relative, Isabel’s uncle Mr. Isabel Archer, an independent and curious young woman from Albany, New York, arrives to the English countryside at the invitation of her maternal aunt Mrs.
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